Yes, the docker based approach is a great way. @Damon - this sounds terrific - look forward to it next week!
On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 8:20 PM Damon Cortesi <dac...@apache.org> wrote: > Coming back to this as I get my dev environment up and running, there's > definitely an intermix of dependencies between Spark, Python, and R that > I'm still working out. > > For example, when I try to start sparkR I get an error message that > "package ‘SparkR’ was built under R version 4.0.4", but locally I have R > version 3.5.2 installed. Spark 3.3.1 says you need R 3.5+. That said, think > my version of R works with Spark2 (at least the tests indicate that...) > > It'd be great to have a minimum viable environment with specific versions > and I hope to have that in a Docker environment by early next week. :) > > Currently I'm just basing it off a debian image with Java8, although there > are Spark images that could be useful... > > Damon > > On 2022/11/20 18:55:35 larry mccay wrote: > > Considering there is no download for anything older than 3.2.x on the > > referred download page, we likely need some change to the README.md to > > reflect a more modern version. > > We also need more explicit instructions for installing Spark than just > the > > download. Whether we detail this or point to Spark docs that are > sufficient > > is certainly a consideration. > > > > At the end of the day, we are missing any sort of quick start guide for > > devs to be able to successfully build and/or run tests. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 6:23 PM larry mccay <larry.mc...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Hey Folks - > > > > > > Our Livy README.md indicates the following: > > > > > > To run Livy, you will also need a Spark installation. You can get Spark > > > releases at https://spark.apache.org/downloads.html. > > > > > > Livy requires Spark 2.4+. You can switch to a different version of > Spark > > > by setting the SPARK_HOME environment variable in the Livy server > > > process, without needing to rebuild Livy. > > > > > > Do we have any variation on this setup at this point in the real world? > > > > > > What do your dev environments actually look like and how are you > > > installing what versions of Spark as a dependency? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > --larry > > > > > >
